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The Farewell (PG)
Plymouth College of Art
Tavistock Place
Plymouth
Devon
PL4 8AT
Opening Times
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Prices
Standard Ticket: £9
OAPs (over 60), Students and Unwaged: £7.75. Please bring proof of eligibility.
25 and Under: £4. Please bring ID, and check the age rating of the film when booking. No other concessions or discounts can be applied to this price.
Plymouth College of Art Staff and Students: £4. Please bring proof of eligibility.
Friends: 75p discount and £7 tickets on Tuesdays
Matinees: £7
Online bookings: add £1.50 booking fee per transaction. This fee helps to pay for maintaining and operating the website and booking system (this fee is waived for Friends).
Bringing in Baby: £8.50 (includes a hot drink)
CEA Cardholders: The Card enables a disabled cinema guest to receive a complimentary ticket for someone to go with them when they purchase a full price ticket (£9). The CEA Card is a national scheme developed for UK cinemas by the UK Cinema Association (UKCA). Please book by phone or in person.
About us
Dir. Lulu Wang, US, 2019, 100 mins, some subtitles.Cast. Awkwafina, Tzi Ma, Diana Lin, Jim Liu.
Main Language: English, Chinese
This film announces at the outset that it's "based on an actual lie." The lie is actual because the filmmaker once told it in her own life and the lie serves as the pretext for what becomes a funny, emotionally intricate and deeply moving tale of severed connections and renewed family ties. In New York, a young Chinese-American woman, Billi, learns from her parents that her beloved grandmother in China has been diagnosed with terminal cancer. In what's described as the traditional Chinese way, the family decides to keep the truth from its matriarch, and speeds up plans for a wedding that will bring everyone back home under the guise of a celebration that is really a farewell. As Billi navigates a minefield of family expectations she finds there's a lot to celebrate: a chance to rediscover the country she left as a child, her grandmother's wondrous spirit, and the ties that keep on binding even when so much goes unspoken.
